Gymnastics Headline

Tuesday March 18, 2014Gator Gymnast Bridget Sloan is SEC Gymnast of the Week

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – For
the second consecutive week, a Gator turned in the season’s top all-around
total in the nation. And for the second straight week, that performance gives
the Southeastern Conference Gymnast of the Week honor to a Gator. Sophomore Bridget Sloan (Pittsboro, Ind.) is the SEC Gymnast of the Week, the league office
announced Tuesday. In the final weekly honors release of the season, Alabama’s Kaitlyn
Clark is the SEC Specialist of the Week and her teammate Katie Bailey and LSU’s
Ashleigh Gnat shared the SEC Freshman of the Week honor.

Nation’s Top All-Around
Totals of 2014

Place

First

School

High

Date

1

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.825

3/14/2014

Alaina Johnson

Florida

39.825

3/7/2014

3

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.75

1/31/2014

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.75

2/14/2014

Rheagan Courville

LSU

39.75

2/15/2014

6

Katherine Grable

Arkansas

39.725

2/21/2014

7

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.70

2/21/2014

Kytra Hunter

Florida

39.70

1/31/2014

Kytra Hunter

Florida

39.70

1/24/2014

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.70

1/17/2014

Bridget
Sloan

Florida

39.70

1/24/2014

Samantha Peszek

UCLA

39.70

3/16/2014

Sloan’s total
of 39.825 at Missouri matches the nation’s top total of 2014 turned in by teammate
Alaina Johnson on March 7 in the home finale versus West Virginia. The
two now share the Florida all-around record.

Sloan’s tally is the top
regular-season all-around total in road action since LSU’s April Burkholder
turned in a 39.875 at Texas Woman’s University in 2003.

The total gave Sloan her
eighth consecutive all-around win and the 15th of her career.

The nation’s four highest
all-around totals have been turned in 12 times in 2014 – and Sloan has posted
half of those marks.

Sloan also shared the
Missouri vault title with teammate Kytra Hunter at 9.95. She used a season-best 9.975
to win bars and a 9.95 to win beam. She leads the Gators in 2014 with 27 event
titles.

Florida’s 2014 SEC Honorees

Week

SEC Gymnast

SEC Specialist

SEC Freshman

1

Kytra Hunter, UF

Sarie Morrison, LSU

Katie Bailey, ALA

Kim Jacob, ALA

2

Bridget Sloan, UF

Chelsea Davis, UGA

Kiera Brown, UGA

3

Kytra Hunter, UF

Lindsey Cheek, UGA

M.J. Rott, AU

Bridget Sloan, UF

4

Bridget Sloan, UF

Lloimincia Hall, LSU

Katie Bailey, ALA

5

Bridget Sloan, UF

Kim Jacob, ALA

Ashleigh Gnat, LSU

Sarie Morrison, LSU

6

Rheagan Courville, LSU

Kytra Hunter, UF

Aja Sims, ALA

7

Diandra Milliner, ALA

Sarie Morrison, LSU

Katie Bailey, ALA

Katherine Grable, ARK

8

Jessie Jordan, LSU

Lindsey Cheek, UGA

Claire Boyce, UF

9

Alaina Johnson, UF

Diandra Milliner, ALA

Amanda Wellick, ARK

10

Bridget Sloan, UF

Kaitlyn Clark, ALA

Katie Bailey, ALA

Ashleigh Gnat, LSU

The SEC Gymnast of the Week
is the fifth such honor for Sloan this season. She is the third different Gator
to receive the honor in 2014, as Hunter picked up the first of the season and
shared the third with Sloan. Johnson was the Week 9 recipient. A Gator has been
named to one of the three SEC weekly honors nine of the 10 weeks of 2014
campaign.

Next up, the No. 1 Gators look to defend their league title at Saturday’s
SEC Championships. SEC competition is in two sessions – seeds 5-8 compete at 3
p.m. ET and seeds 1-4 compete at 7 p.m. ET. Results from the two sessions are
combined to determine team and individual standings. Florida will compete
in the second session at the Birmingham-Jefferson
Convention Complex.

Tickets
for Saturday’s meet are $18 for reserved seats and $14 for general admission.
Tickets are available at TicketMaster site.

The 2014 SEC Championships will
air tape-delayed on ESPNU (Gainesville/Ocala Cox cable channel 1251) on March
27 at 5:30 p.m. ET and on ESPN2 (Cox cable 27 or 1027) on March 29 at 11 a.m.
ET.

Streaming video of the meet is
not available. Live scoring can be found on GatorZone.com.